According to a Crowe report, hospitals with insourced revenue cycles have a lower rate of point-of-service collections from patients than outsourcing hospitals. However, hospitals that outsourced revenue cycles wait on average 33 days longer to collect balance payments from patients.

According to reports, the physician scarcity in the U.S. could reach 121,300 by 2030. It is expected that the shortage among primary care doctors could be between 14,800 and 49,000, while non-primary care specialties face a shortage of as high as 72,700 physicians

MedSpring notified over 13,000 affected individuals following a phishing scam that compromised protected health information. The organization has also offered one year of identity protection and fraud resolution services.

Two of the largest EHR vendors have conflicting plans for 2018, with Allscripts broadening its product portfolio while Cerner is focusing on two landmark EHR modernizations that could have industry-wide gravitational pull.

Sensitive patient data may have been left exposed after employees of Sunspire Health fell victims to a targeted phishing campaign. Exposed information includes Social Security numbers and health insurance information.

KKR purchases Envision in a $9.9 billion deal. This comes after Envision’s board of directors reviewed the offer from KKR for 7 months before making a decision to sell. The deal is expected to be completed before the end of the fourth quarter this year.

Integris Health turned to an identity governance (IG) vendor to help it know and control what users had access to as well as ensuring that users had the right access to information. This was after they had failed several security audits